13-letter words containing d, r
- dissimilarity — unlikeness; difference.
- dissimilatory — to modify by dissimilation.
- dissymmetries — Plural form of dissymmetry.
- distance race — a running race longer than 1500 meters (1635 yards).
- distinguisher — to mark off as different (often followed by from or by): He was distinguished from the other boys by his height.
- distortedness — The quality of being distorted.
- distortionary — an act or instance of distorting.
- distractingly — to draw away or divert, as the mind or attention: The music distracted him from his work.
- distress call — a prearranged communication code sign indicating that the sender is in a situation of peril, distress, or the like, as SOS, Mayday, etc. Compare distress signal (def 1).
- distress flag — any flag flown by a vessel to show that it is in distress, as an ensign flown at half-mast or upside down.
- distress sale — a sale held for the purpose of raising money to meet emergency expenses and usually offering goods at a substantial discount for the payment of cash.
- distressfully — In a distressful way; showing distress.
- distressingly — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
- distributable — to divide and give out in shares; deal out; allot.
- distributions — Plural form of distribution.
- distributives — Plural form of distributive.
- distrustfully — In a distrustful manner.
- distrustingly — In a distrusting manner.
- divarications — Plural form of divarication.
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- diversionists — Plural form of diversionist.
- divertibility — the capability of being diverted
- diverticulate — of or relating to a diverticulum
- divertisement — (archaic) diversion; amusement; recreation.
- divine mother — the creative, dynamic aspect of the Godhead, the consort or Shakti of Brahma, Vishnu, or Shiva, variously known as Devi, Durga, Kālī, Shakti, etc.
- diving petrel — any of several small seabirds of the family Pelecanoididae, of Southern Hemisphere seas, having compact bodies, tubelike processes near the nostrils, and usually drab plumage.
- diving reflex — a reflex of humans, other mammals, reptiles, and birds, triggered by immersion in cold water, that slows the heart rate and diverts blood flow to the brain, heart, and lungs: serves to conserve oxygen until breathing resumes and to delay potential brain damage.
- divinyl ether — vinyl ether.
- division ring — a ring in which the set of nonzero elements is a group with the operation of multiplication.
- divorce court — a court having jurisdiction over termination of marital relations, as actions for divorce or annulment.
- do the honors — honesty, fairness, or integrity in one's beliefs and actions: a man of honor.
- dock-walloper — a casual laborer about docks or wharves.
- doctrinairism — Doctrinaire attitudes generally.
- documentarian — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentaries — Plural form of documentary.
- documentarily — Also, documental [dok-yuh-men-tl] /ˌdɒk yəˈmɛn tl/ (Show IPA). pertaining to, consisting of, or derived from documents: a documentary history of France.
- documentarist — Movies, Television. a filmmaker, producer, etc., who specializes in documentaries.
- documentarize — to put in the form of a documentary
- dodecahedrane — (organic compound) One of the Platonic hydrocarbons, C20H20, having the carbon atoms at the vertices of a regular dodecahedron.
- dodecahedrons — Plural form of dodecahedron.
- doer and gone — far away
- dog's mercury — a hairy somewhat poisonous euphorbiaceous perennial, Mercurialis perennis, having broad lanceolate toothed leaves and small greenish male and female flowers, the males borne in catkins. It often carpets shady woodlands
- dog-leg stair — a half-turn stair, the successive flights of which are immediately side by side and connected by an intervening platform.
- dole cupboard — a livery cupboard formerly used in churches for holding bread to be distributed to the poor.
- dolichocranic — dolichocephalic.
- dolichosaurus — any of various extinct Cretaceous aquatic reptiles that had long necks and bodies and well-developed limbs
- dollar-a-year — of or being an official or employee, especially a federal appointee, who receives a token annual salary, usually of one dollar: a dollar-a-year man.
- dollarization — the conversion of a country's currency system into U.S. dollars.
- dolly mixture — a mixture of small coloured sweets
- dolphinariums — Plural form of dolphinarium.